3D Arcade Shooter Tries to Scare You, Then Humiliate You For Being Scared

Arcades and horror games that are truly terrifying are a rarity these days. This Namco-Bandai arcade shooter coming to Japanese arcades soon aims to kill two birds with one heart stopping, pants wetting scare.

Arcades and horror games that are truly terrifying are a rarity these days. This Namco-Bandai arcade shooter coming to Japanese arcades soon aims to kill two birds with one heart stopping, pants wetting scare.

Dark Escape 3D might look like your typical two-player, seated shooter in any arcade (what's left of them), but it has a few surprises designed to scare you and then take away whatever dignity you have left by recording how much it scared you.

The entire game is enclosed in a dark theater cabinet with surround sound speakers, shaking seats and air cannons aimed at your face, neck and legs as a series of very frightening and loud monsters and creatures rear their very ugly heads around your three-dimensional field of vision.

The truly unique part is that heartbeat monitors are built into the handles of the guns. The game registers your heartbeat through the game and assigns you a score at the end of each level to show your friend/opponent how scared you were through the experience.

I sincerely hope that each arcade cabinet also comes with a complimentary can of Scotchguard for the seats.